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Update from ANN
Posted by B Darnell on Tue May 20, 2003 09:20:39 AM
In reply top Cavanaugh Corsair posted by Ryan Harris on Sun May 18, 2003 03:56:05 PM
From ANN:
Cavanaugh Museum's Corsair Makes Belly Landing
It's Gonna Be OK
It figures: just when the plane's out of the detail shop, getting all those
little scratches fixed, something goes wrong, and then there's more
scratches to fix.
So went the story of Doug Cavanaugh's Goodyear-built FG1D Corsair. He told
ANN, "We just had it out of the paint shop, getting some touchup. It flew
the day before -- it ran good, everything was fine, in an hour-and half
flight." So, the beauty was ready to go to see some folks in Denver, but
"fifteen minutes into the flight, it lost oil."
Doug didn't know exactly why the oil was missing: "It's in the area of the
oil cooler -- it burst, or sprung a leak, or something -- it pumped all the
oil out."
Once things had gone to heck, though, Doug's pilot did the right thing. "He
picked out a nice soft, plowed field, and slid it in," Doug said.
Damage? "Gear doors, flaps; the engine has to be looked at; and the prop is
shot -- the blades are bent. And there's some more scratches."
It's going to be better, soon: "We've already got it on its wheels and in a
barn," Doug assured us, "and it's coming back home in a couple days. There's
no serious structural damage."
** Report created 5/19/2003 Record 14 **
IDENTIFICATION
Regis#: 451FG Make/Model: FG1D Description: 1945 GOODYEAR FG1D
Date: 05/16/2003 Time: 1915
Event Type: Incident Highest Injury: None Mid Air: N Missing: N
Damage: Minor
LOCATION
City: ERA State: TX Country: US
DESCRIPTION
ACFT LOST OIL PRESSURE AND MADE A GEAR UP EMERGENCY LANDING, ERA, TX
INJURY DATA Total Fatal: 0
# Crew: 1 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
# Pass: 0 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
# Grnd: Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
WEATHER: GLE METAR 1847Z 250019KT 10SM CLR 27/15 A2968
OTHER DATA
Activity: Pleasure Phase: Unknown Operation: General Aviation
Departed: ADDISON ARPT, TX Dep Date: 05/16/2003 Dep. Time:
Destination: DENVER, CO Flt Plan: NONE Wx Briefing: Y
Last Radio Cont: NONE
Last Clearance: NONE
FAA FSDO: FORT WORTH, TX (SW19) Entry date: 05/19/2003
FMI: www.cavanaughflightmuseum.com/Aircraft/Corsair/Page1.html
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